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In my work leading professional learning, I see what you see every day: the challenge of applying theory to daily teaching. It’s easy to learn new strategies. It’s hard to make them central to how we teach every day.

There is also a challenge of initiative overload: too many different demands on teachers coming from too many different directions. It’s human nature to get excited about a new silver-bullet solution (e.g., strategy, curriculum, training, or initiative) and much more challenging to synthesize what we know to strategically address the needs of students in our unique teaching contexts.

I address both of these challenges in this flip-to guide by applying my favorite high-level thinking skill: synthesis.